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What to do if the property you are buying is family owned

Apart from getting family receipt. Make sure you get a document of transfer from them where all the name of principal members, and head or accredited representatives of the family branches and family head are written are written and executed (i.e. sign)  by all of them. If some are illiterate ensure there is a column on that document where it is written that the content was read and interpreted to them in their language and they only sign after understanding same.
Let them physically put you on the land at the time of making payment. If possible take photograph of the situation of the land/property and make happy with you. Don’t delay in doing survey plan and stamp duty at the proper office not through touts. Take quick possession of the property and assert your right or presence on the property so that whatever problems that exist will emerge so quickly.
Any property that is a subject of court action or quarrel, don’t buy except you are ready to pay purchase price many times, in fact, some may even refuse to collect money from you, insisting that you have to vacate the property, so, you need to be careful.
If it is a mere land, take photograph of the state of the land at the earliest time, and any development you make on the land or property, always take photograph of them, they are likely to become useful and redeeming for you later. Pay tenement rate or land use charge regularly. They are all buttressing your evidence of ownership.
Don’t delay in applying for C or O through the family receipt issued to you. Any property that falls with government acquisitions, don’t buy. You may not be disturbed now but one day, government will remember it and chase you out.
Remember that if you lose that opportunity just because you are investigating, you have saved yourself a serious headache and you will surely get a better one.
Note that if the property is a registered one and the real owner whose names appear on the title document is dead, his children or relations cannot validly sell the property
Except:-

  • The real owner left a will behind and it is the beneficiary under such will that intends to sell the property. Even here, he has to produce a document with which the executors/executrix of his dead fathers will vested the interest in such property in/to him. That type of document is called vesting deed, which must have also been registered,

  • If the real owner did not leave a will behind, his children and wife or relations must choose among themselves those who will act as administrators of the estate and apply to the probates section of the state High Court to obtain letters of administration that can validly sell the deceased’s properties which are listed in the said letters.

  • Also, if the property is owned by a company, a director and secretary of the said company must execute such document and affix the company seal for the sale to be valid.



  • If the property is owned by a church or a religious organization or registered organization, it’s only its registered trustees that can sell, with the seal of the organization.
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